Phil 101, Lecture 21.pdf

• Rawlsian Reﬂective Equilibrium - your theoretical rules,principles,and theories should match your intuitions,
theories,and hypos
• The Survival Lottery Harris - people are chosen to be sacriﬁced to save the lives of multiple other people
though organ transplant
⿞Allowing someone to die is the same as killing them,so you should use the survival lottery
‣ Refutations
• Allowing someone to die is not the same as killing them;killing is interfering in your affairs,
allowing you to die is just allowing your affairs to continue as they were
• Taking organs after death is not immoral under deontology because it's universalizable and follows
the rule of humanity
‣ Inherent subject of conﬂict between deontology and utilitarianism
⿞The two subjects are innocent so it is not fair that they should die
‣ Sounds like Nagel,they have bad luck,it is not their fault that they are in this position
‣ Refutation
• The subject apt hat is being harvested to kill the others is also innocent
⿞Survival lottery saves two innocents instead of just one
• Innocence isn't important,it is survival of the ﬁttest and best for humanity for them to die
• Why not just kill not innocent people to save the lives of the innocent? Fix the lottery
⿞This is too objective
⿞It's a new slave system,those that are lower are partially owned for their body by a higher
caste
• If you are afraid of killing people that will carry on healthy genes,this is just not a consideration
because the chances of them dying of unnatural causes due to not being saved by the survival
lottery is greater t